I subscribe to the school of using some crazy spy gadget to lift the middle out and eat it, then eat the edge, and finally put the wrapper through the paper shredder.

...just kidding. I did enjoy those commercials though.

Also, cheese and peanut butter was and will always be awesome, and the same goes for scrambled eggs on peanut buttered toast.

Someone also quoted me a few pages back, saying that the vanilla ice cream/peanut butter cup/peanut butter combination needed a chocolate shell. I actually usually put some on if it's available (along with a pile of other things such as Mini Eggs, Smarties, chocolate chip cookies, etc.), but I just kept the combination short for simplicity. Still, that doesn't lessen the taste sensation that is all four (or more) of those ingredients combined.

I had a PB&J with crunchy/chunky last night, and I have confirmed by preference for smooth, at least for sandwichs. The crunchy PB was hard to spread. If I was just doing PB on crackers or something, it would have been fine, I think.

If I made a PB&J at night, wrapped it in Cellophane, and then left it in normal room temperature, would it still be good by the morning? My refrigerator has a habit of freezing everything I don't want it to and I don't really have time in the morning to make such a sandwich...

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Okita wrote:If I made a PB&J at night, wrapped it in Cellophane, and then left it in normal room temperature, would it still be good by the morning? My refrigerator has a habit of freezing everything I don't want it to and I don't really have time in the morning to make such a sandwich...

It would probably be fine, although if this is for lunch the next day, I might actually put it in the freezer overnight. Take it out in the morning, and it should thaw by lunch time. This eliminates all possibility of nasties getting to the sandwich overnight. Freezing shouldn't have any adverse effect on the peanut butter or jelly, and it is better to freeze bread than refridgerate it. Refridgerating bread makes it go stale faster than if it were left at room temperature, but freezing keeps bread fresh the longest.

If you're making it for breakfast the next morning, go ahead and leave it out. I've made sandwiches in the morning, taken them to work and eaten them for dinner with no ill effects. Sleepy time ~ 8 hours. Work day ~ 8 hours.

Jelly doesn't actually spoil very quickly. I had a jar sitting out for about two weeks in an air conditioned box of a room in Texas. I'd worry more about the bread getting soggy than the jelly going bad in a few hours.

Well I gots a whole routine. But mostly it's the having to get out the bread/ peanut butter, smearing the bread, cleaning up. That's around 10 minutes which is more than I am willing to spare in the mornings. I have this whole...take minimum amount of time from getting out of bed to going out the door thing going on.

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Okita wrote:Well I gots a whole routine. But mostly it's the having to get out the bread/ peanut butter, smearing the bread, cleaning up. That's around 10 minutes which is more than I am willing to spare in the mornings. I have this whole...take minimum amount of time from getting out of bed to going out the door thing going on.

Ten minutes?? Are you baking the bread? Ah, I do understand spending the longest amount of time in bed possible and all, just, I can't imagine needing longer than 3mins to do it all, but whatever works for you.

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Okita wrote:Well I gots a whole routine. But mostly it's the having to get out the bread/ peanut butter, smearing the bread, cleaning up. That's around 10 minutes which is more than I am willing to spare in the mornings. I have this whole...take minimum amount of time from getting out of bed to going out the door thing going on.

Ten minutes?? Are you baking the bread? Ah, I do understand spending the longest amount of time in bed possible and all, just, I can't imagine needing longer than 3mins to do it all, but whatever works for you.

10 may be an exaggeration. Probably 5. Nevertheless.

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I did that once a few years back. I highly suggest using zipper bags instead of cellophane (saran wrap) or sandwich bags. As your sandwich thaws, condensation may occur, leak into the packaging, thereby ruining said sandwich and causing your breakfast, lunch, or dinner to be full of fail. MIght be better if you can get some of the vacuum-sealing bags, like the Food-Saver machine and accompanying bags.

If the fancy PB is unavailable, I go for chunky. So much better than creamy. When PB is creamy, the whole sandwich just seems mushy and gross.

You, I like!

I feel so deviant for focusing on jelly when the thread is devoted to confrontations about peanut butter. PB&J may go together like ramalamalama-kadinkididinky-dong, but they are entirely separate creations.

If you like chunky peanut butter, you are already 20 steps ahead on the "You, I like" list.

Maybe my peanut butter just has special powers, but it does not separate. I don't refrigerate it with no problems arising from the lack of cool. The consistency is a nice, middle ground in the war of creamy vs. chunky. It is spreadable and has some interesting crunch bits.

Get me a version with no added sugar, but still possessing the necessary stabilizers and preservatives, and made with a grinder that can actually achieve some smoothness between the chunks, and I imagine that would be great.

However, I'm willing to put up with, and even enjoy, a bit of sugar, in return for shelf-stability and texture.

madaloon wrote:Maybe my peanut butter just has special powers, but it does not separate. I don't refrigerate it with no problems arising from the lack of cool. The consistency is a nice, middle ground in the war of creamy vs. chunky. It is spreadable and has some interesting crunch bits.